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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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1817. IN this year were opened the following streets First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Orchard, Chrystie, Forsyth, Eldridge, Allen, and Ludlow, the five last named after military and naval heroes, viz.: Lieutenant-colonel John Chrystie, killed on the Niagara frontier; Lieutenant-colonel Forsyth of the Rifles, wounded in Canada in the same year ; Lieutenant Eldridge, scalped in Canada ; Lieutenant William H. Allen, wounded in the action between the Argus and H. B. M. S. Pelican ; Lieutenant Ludlow, killed in the engagement between the Chesapeake and H. B. M. S. Shannon. Pile Street perpetuates the name of General Pike, killed in the attack upon York (Toronto), Canada--all in the same year of 1813.
Anthony Street (Worth), had been extended to Orange (Baxter), making at the intersection with Cross (Park) Street, five angular corners; these were designated and known as the " Five Points "-a locality that attained a national reputation as the resort of the abandoned of both sexes and of all nations.
This year saw the beginning of the North River Steamboat Co., hence to Albany. In evidence of the rising commerce of New York at this time it should be noted here that on March 8 twenty-five square-rigged vessels, besides schooners and sloops, proceeded to sea, and on the 7th of November following; there were thirty-six arrivals of sea-going vessels inside Sandy Hook. in August a horse-boat was for the first time put on the
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